Surname: Brown Forename(s): John b. 1822. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet, writing in Scots and English. Born in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire,
and lived for most of his life in Glasgow where he was a pattern maker. Author of
*Snow Drifts* (1874, 1883), *Poems and Songs* (1883), *Wayside Songs, with Other Verse*
(1883), and *Wayside Songs, with Later Lyrics* (1887). Biographical information: Reilly,
*Late Victorian Poetry, p. 68; *The Scottish Poets Recent and Living*, edited by Alexander
G. Murdoch, Thomas D. Morison, 1883, pp. 266-67; Goodridge. (AC)